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Scaling NSX FQDN Filtering with PowerShell

If you’ve spent any time managing firewall rules, you already know that chasing down dynamic IP addresses of modern web services is impossible. Fortunately, NSX offers layer 7 context profiles, allowing you to drop traffic based on domain name (FQDN) by inspecting the TLS SNI or the plaintext HTTP host header. It’s a great way to enforce basic web filtering.